#cottage – Wonderings

Cold as Ice

The minus 18 temperature is not going to deter me. I have spent the last week coddling the ice, keeping the snow from accumulating, shoveling everyday, defining the contour with scrap wood, flooding the rink at dusk to take advantage of overnight cold. Grab the skates, stick and puck, pull down the toque a littleContinue reading “Cold as Ice”

Beautiful Day

Don’t let it slip away A mirror of trees Paints a picture on the lake.Quiet of the morn,Loons swim past without a wake.Songs of birds, warmth of the sun,Day begins, together, one. New buds, fresh stems show,Another petal opens.Life, garden. Flower and grow.

Let it snow

“You don’t have to shovel rain.” I was reminded again this past weekend of my father’s saying after three hours of clearing the accumulated snow fall at the cottage. Some work was self-imposed, shoveling my way to the ice beneath in an annual effort to make a skating rink on the lake. Fortunately, the 200Continue reading “Let it snow”